Door-holder.



J. M. SPENCER.

DOOR HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 16, 1914.

Patented Sept. 7, 1915.

Witnesses Atto rneys JAMES M. SPENCER, 0F HASTINGS, FLORIDA.

DOOR'HOLIDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 7, 1915.

Application filed September 16, 1914. Serial No. 862,085.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES M. SPENCER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hastings, in the county of St. John and State of Florida, have invented a new and useful Door-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in door holders.

One object of the present invention, is the provision of a simple and inexpensive device of this character adapted to be attached to and carried bodily by the door, and whereby the same is normally held out of engagement with the floor, but is readily placed into engagement and there held so as to hold the door at any desired angularity.

"With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of the lower portion of the door and casing showing the present invention in use. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the device in the position it assumes when engaging the floor. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the same normally out of engagement with the floor. Fig. 4 is a top plan View of the device in the position as shown in Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings, D designates the door, which has secured thereto by the pivoting screw 2, the plate 1, said plate 1 as clearly illustrated in plan is made fishshaped so that the nose or lug 3 thereof will constitute the foot engaging means for depressing the device and also the floor engaging end, while the tail portions 4: and 5 will constitute the guiding and manipulating portion when elevating the lug 3. The tail portion 5 is bent outwardly "from the body of the plate so as to be in ready access to be operated by the foot of the person desiring to place the same into floor engaging position, as shown in Fig. 2 or out of engagement with the floor, as shown in Fig. 3.

The pin 6 is carried by the plate 1 at a point beyond the pivoting point 2 so that one terminal of the coiled spring 7 may be attached thereto while the opposite terminal of the coiled spring is attached by the screw or pin 8 to the door D. It will thus be seen that the tension of the spring will be so disposed as to hold the plate 1 in either one of the extreme positions, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

From the foregoing description, it is evident that with the door holder made according to and embodying the present invention, that the two screws. 2 are only necessary to properly assemble or attach the device in position upon any door, and that I when the same is so attached, the projection 5 will limit the movement of the floor engaging member 3 away from the floor or as illustrated in Fig. 3, due to the engagement thereof by the spring 7 intermediate of the ends of the spring. lhus it will be noted that the tendency of the spring is to hold the floor engaging member 3 in either eX-' treme position and that by the manipulation of the lug 5 to elevate the same at the instant the screw 6 is below the screw 2, so that the tension of the spring will pull the floor engaging end 3 downwardly in engagement with the floor.

What is claimed is:

A door holder, including a plate having a reduced floor engaging terminal at one end, the terminal being thicker than the plate to form afoot receiving lug, and two spaced. lugs at the opposite end, one of the two latter lugs being bent so as to be at an approximate right angle to the body of the plate, means for pivoting the plate intermediate of its ends, and a coiled spring engaging the plate beyond the pivotal point and having a normal tension to hold the floor engaging end upon or away from the,

floor, the bent lug contacting the spring when the floor engaging lug is out of use and limiting the distance of the floor engaging lug above the floor.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES M. SPENCER.

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Washington, D. 0. 

